I’m interested in context and color, how sound and vision, language and music, converse as stories. A desire to find and to share is behind just about every project and professional choice I’ve made throughout my decade-plus career working around independent music and culture. This website is a working document of where that’s led and what I can offer now, through collaborative projects (with you, perhaps). Thanks for stopping by.
Featured album bio: Annahstasia - Tether
"My career has been a lesson in patience," says Annahstasia, having cultivated her musical language between blazes of intimacy and independence across different lives, locations, and iterations, loves lost and gained, expectations evaded and recreated. The rising troubadour's proximity to love — for and from others, in society at large, and deeply within herself — guides the spirit of her soulful, poetic folk songcraft. Love is the elemental constant, alongside her distinctly resonant voice, shading the singer-songwriter's music since her earliest self-taught recordings, back when a 17-year-old Annahstasia Enuke was discovered and propelled into the pressures of an industry that nearly stifled her greatest strengths. Artistic resilience, gratitude, and dedication to process have yielded Tether, a collection of beaming torch songs, orchestral hymns, and astral anthems that feel lived-in, drawn from the human experience and the spectrum of love…
Featured copy project: Ghostly x Audika & Tom Lee
In our reverence for great artists, Ghostly International has once again partnered with Audika Records and the estate of virtuosic and prescient musician Arthur Russell (1951-1992) on a limited capsule collection of some of his most memorable visual works. In 2019, we launched a handful of items from the archive of New York-based visual artist Tom Lee, highlighting postcard flyers he designed for his longtime partner, Russell. It’s been an honor and a privilege collaborating with these two stewards of Russell’s legacy, who were just as excited as we were to continue the project.
The second capsule further celebrates Russell’s visual language, bringing an expanded series of flyers by both Russell and Lee to a new spread of short and long-sleeve tees, plus a crewneck sweatshirt, and a baseball cap…
Featured curatorial project: Stack (and what’s next)
Hype Machine’s weekly discovery newsletter, Stack, launched in 2014 as “a snapshot of what’s happening in music now, from our hearts to your inbox.”
Five tracks, a featured album, a good mix, and a good read, delivered every week. That’s roughly 2500 songs from almost as many artists over the past decade.
As Stack’s author, I’ve tried to highlight a range of music, something interesting from each loosely defined sonic bin. The practice of listening, reading, and putting Stack together was a regular reminder that there is real joy in discovery. I hope that it’s brought some to readers as well.
The 500th and final Stack was sent in August 2025. Stack will return in another form. Add your email for updates here.